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Wayne Rooney will not be forced out of Manchester United and the club will look for a significant transfer fee if the striker decides his future lies away from Old Trafford.
Rooney, captain for club and country, is no longer an automatic starter for either United nor England.

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United in the final match of the Premier League. Manchester United fans were
furious and protested against the owner of the team, Malcolm Glazer.

But first-half goals from Mata and Rojo put Louis van Gaal's side in control before Wilson added a third to rubber-stamp a win that sets up a fifth-round trip to Preston North End, who beat Sheffield United 3-1.

United, fielding a side that cost £231 million ($350.4 million, 305.2 million euros) to assemble, survived an early scare against a Cambridge line-up that had not cost a single pound when Tom Elliott shot against the post in the first minute.

"We have done what we had to," United manager Van Gaal told the BBC. "For the club, the fans and the coach and my staff, we want to win a title this year. The biggest chance is the FA Cup, but we still have to win four games to do that."

Seven minutes later, Rojo made it 2-0 after Fellaini's shot was blocked and the rebound spun kindly for Robin van Persie. The Dutch international chipped in a cross for Rojo, who made no mistake with a strong header from six yards out to claim his first goal for the club since joining from Sporting Lisbon last year.

But their League Two opponents refused to be over-awed by the occasion and their 6,500 supporters, many of whom had been stranded in a motorway traffic jam, forcing the kick-off to be delayed by 20 minutes, remained in defiant voice.

The replay generated an estimated £1 million for Cambridge, which chairman Dave Doggett mischievously suggested would be invested in new lavatories at their Abbey Stadium home, scene of the 0-0 draw in the teams' first encounter. But they had Old Trafford experience in their ranks in the shape of former United winger Luke Chadwick and showed their desire to make a game of it when Ryan Donaldson shot wide before the interval.

Both sides hit the woodwork thereafter, Real Sociedad on two occasions, but unlike in Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Southampton in the Premier League, United were spared the pain of shipping a late equaliser.

Victory, coupled with Bayer Leverkusen's success against Shakhtar Donetsk, leaves United a point above the German side at the top of Group A ahead of their return fixture against La Real on November 5.

Manchester City's 3-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur a day earlier had handed United a chance to regain the title and Alex Ferguson's men needed no second invitation, swamping Villa to claim the championship with four games to spare.